Word: mistressing
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Highly competent acting characterizes the small roles: Dee Victor as Willy's mistress, Frederick Warriner as his employer, and John Peters as Miller's most blatant symbol, Uncle Ben, who walked into the jungle at 17 and walked out at 21, and by God, he was RICH...
...church as the safest answer to the question of his future and a step up the social ladder for themselves. Though he lacks dedication, Philip is not without conscience. But his earthy hungers are stronger than any spiritual pull. He starts to drink, winds up with a mistress, and is finally crushed by the tragic results of his best-meant advice to a parishioner. The moral: be yourself...
...child is merely precocious, but the parents are nearly psychotic. Jordan's first service to her mistress is to scoop up the razor blade with which suicide-bent Elise French has slashed her wrist. Seems that Elise suffers from bottle fatigue (too much vodka) and pencil-envy. She pines for the days when she used to turn out some of the top publicity copy on Madison Avenue. Hubby Carter is a $100,000-a-year magazine publisher and as full of answers as an IBM machine, except that he never asks himself the right questions about his wife...
...experience is necessary to the rhythm of life," he once told Secretary Young. "It quietens, it deadens, and it diverts." For the rhythm section of his life, Gulbenkian required a new girl about once every three months. He seemed to prefer the Eliza Doolittle type. There was a discreet "mistress of the mistresses' wardrobes" who handled the social polishing as well as the farewell sobs, frequently stifled by generous sums (average...
Rubber-Walled Cell. Later a wealthy woman called "L" became O'Connor's mistress and patroness, bought him erector sets, clockwork trains, motorcars, liquor, and phonograph records ("Tchaikovsky for ... relishing misery . . . Stravinsky for hangovers"). All the while, she "walked by "my side, never-ceasing in her disciple's adoration." But by the time the two of them had spent all "L's" capital, she had reached the stage where she "complained of Indians staring at her" and attacked O'Connor with chopper, razor blades and cutlery. Soon, "L" was tucked away "in a rubber-walled...